Peter Lindbergh Quotes

All art is based on non-conformity.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.

You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.